Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Pro vs Mistral Small
Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and Mistral Small in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Pro leads 39.7 to 16.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 83.5% for Gemini 2.0 Pro and 46.8% for Mistral Small.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2025-02-05 | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.0 Pro leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.8 (#187), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 63.5% | 36.2% |
| Aider Polyglot | 35.6% | — |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1362 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |
Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Pro leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 22.3 (#198), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 60.1% | 44.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 68% | 53.7% |
| LiveBench | 65.1% | 44% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1335 |
| DTBench | — | 70.9% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.06 | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Pro leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 39.7 (#100), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 71% | 39.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | 83.5% | 46.8% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1341 |
Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Pro leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#167), Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.7% | 47.5% |
| Confabulations | 18.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1291 |
| MMLU | — | 68.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1340 |
| LMArena French | — | 1337 |
| LMArena German | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1346 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Pro leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.5 (#59), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 83.4% | 63.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1310 |
Long Context Mistral Small leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.2 (#292), Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 41.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#165), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Language | 44.9% | 30.5% |
| LMArena Text | — | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1344 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Pro better than Mistral Small?
Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Pro or Mistral Small better for coding?
Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Pro and Mistral Small share?
9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.